God. All I can think about is how this feels like a Voat situation. I really really hope not.
At least I found mastodon. I feel like that could blow up.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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holy shit i remember voat.
No, because Lemmy is not a platform, its a software that can be run on a server, and that server running the code is called an instance. The instance is where the platform is. An instance can communicate with other instances, which is called federation. Instances that are deemed problematic by another instance owner can become "defederated" meaning communication is cut off. One well known instance being defederated is lemmygrad.ml, which is an instance that promotes authoritarian-left political views. Another instance is exploding-heads.com (don't know if I spelt it correctly, I don't care), which has far-right content.
TLDR: Lemmy is not a singular platform, but an interconnected network of servers (instances). Lemmy will not "die" anytime soon, but certain instances can die.
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Voat did a couple of things wrong, first they Atko attempted to attract people to his site during the Pao thing, people were looking for an alternative and Atko presented his site as faster as it's written in C#, and has things to prevent powermods by having mod limits and brigading by having minimum points to comment.
What that means is that the normal people who went there to like things are turned off by the lack of content and went back to reddit, so the only one who stayed are the ones who are there to not like things(to put it lightly), and they get louder because they posted more about the things they not like, and since there is a barrier to entry, they just got more and more people who were there to not like things and pushed out all the original nice communities that were on voat, which turned the site into only a place for people to not like things.
So as long as we have people who like things and tell the people who are here to solely not like things to leave, it should be fine.
self hosting. voat got too big without a real income stream, when the guy throwing money at it backed out it was done.